Communications Associate

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Foundation’s earned media outreach through building target lists of media, supporting pitching efforts, and helping the Communications Team continue to build relationships with new reporters, media outlets, podcast hosts, and surrogates
• Create content to tell the stories of the Foundation’s work. This includes helping draft and running clearance on content including press releases, op-eds, briefings, clips packages, board materials; coordinating with the Communications and Marketing teams, and the Foundation’s programs
• Providing administrative support to the Communications teams, including setting meetings, coordinating schedules, proofreading documents, and other tasks as needed
• Work with the digital team to coordinate social copy on press rollouts
• Supporting other long-term projects of the Communications teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications or relevant field to the Clinton Foundation’s work required
• 1-2 years’ experience in communications or media relations working in the Clinton Foundation’s issue areas, for a PR agency, on a campaign, for a government agency, for a media outlet, or for a multi-national corporation required
• Familiarity with social media channels, research and media applications such as Cision and Lexis/Nexis

Preferred

• Experience in media and marketing preferred, including pitching, writing, and other content creation in areas related to the work of the Clinton Foundation including health and wellness, civic education and leadership development, early childhood education, economic and workforce development, climate change, empowering girls and women

Benefits

• generous benefits package at little to no cost to employees - take a look at our benefits page, so you can get a full picture of our total rewards offerings.